I realize it's been quite a while since I taught - or was in school myself - but I'm distressed…
Morning Headlines 9/22/17
Certification Program Updates to Support Efficiency & Reduce Burden
ONC eases EHR Certification requirements for vendors in an effort to reduce regulatory burden on health IT developers. First, ONC has revised certification test procedures so that vendors can “self declare” that their products meet 30 of 55 certification criteria. Second, ONC plans to exercise “enforcement discretion” when it comes to conducting randomized surveillance of health IT products.
Letter to HHS Secretary Thomas Price, MD
Representatives Greg Walden (R-OR) and Tim Murphy (R-PA) send a letter to HHS Secretary Thomas Price asking for an update on HHS plan to address cyberthreats to the healthcare sector after learning that the “NotPetya” malware attack is causing lingering delays in availability of certain Merck products.
VA CIO Rob Thomas retiring from government
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ acting CIO, Rob Thomas, will retire from government service in October. VA Interim Deputy Secretary Scott Blackburn will replace him.
VA Removes Former D.C. Medical Center Director
The VA has fired the medical director of the D.C. Medical Center for sending sensitive VA information from his work email to unsecured private email accounts.
Let me get this straight, to improve efficiency and reduce burden on VENDORS they can self declare their cert EHR works. What are we doing? Lets just drop Cert and let them really innovate? And by the way its NOT just the vendors that are burdened ONC…did you forget…the DOCTORS are burdened by the ridiculous regulatory activity of MU MACRA MIPS etc. Wake up.